Ten Great AdventurersHarper, 1915 - 280 עמודים |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 80 - ... himself ; that would never see us want what he either had or could by any means get us ; that would rather want than borrow, or starve than not pay ; that loved action more than words, and hated falsehood and covetousness worse than death ; whose adventures were our lives and whose loss our deaths.
עמוד 142 - The motion, indeed, was so great, that the ship's bell, which in the heaviest gale of wind had never struck of itself, now tolled so continually, that it was ordered to be muffled, for the purpose of escaping the unpleasant association it was calculated to produce.
עמוד 212 - There were five feet water in the hold, and, though it was moderate from the explosion of so much gunpowder, yet the three pumps that remained could with difficulty only keep the water from gaining. The fire broke out in various parts of the ship...
עמוד 64 - ... drew him forth and led him to the fire, where his men were slaine. Diligently they chafed his benumbed limbs. He demanding for their Captaine, they shewed him Opechankanough, King of Pamaunkee, to whom he gave a round Ivory double compass Dyall.
עמוד 80 - What shall I say ? but thus we lost him that in all his proceedings made justice his first guide and experience his second ; ever hating baseness, sloth, pride, and indignity more than any dangers ; that never allowed more for himself than his...
עמוד 212 - ... and within a few inches of the powder. In that dilemma I took out the powder upon deck, ready to be thrown overboard at the last extremity; and it was ten o'clock the next day, the 24th, before the fire was entirely extinguished. With respect to the situation of the Bon homme Richard...
עמוד 3 - ... besought Almighty God of His goodness to give him life and leave to sail once in an English ship in that sea.
עמוד 20 - Enclosed in a leaden coffin the body was carried a league to sea, and there in sight of the spot where his first victory had been celebrated, amidst a lament of trumpets and the thunder of cannon, the sea received her own again. At his side were sunk two of his ships for which there was no longer need and all his last-taken prizes, and for a pall he had the smoke of the latest fort which his life-long enemy had raised against him. So the fleet went its way, and left him lying like a Viking dead and...